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Job Title: Creative Director

Department: Global Marketing

Location: Remote

Meet Timberland.

Founded in 1973, Timberland is a global outdoor lifestyle brand based in Stratham, New Hampshire, with international headquarters in Switzerland and Hong Kong. Best known for its original yellow boot designed for the harsh elements of New England, Timberland today offers a full range of footwear, apparel, and accessories for people who value purposeful style and share the brands passion for enjoying - and protecting - nature.

At the heart of the Timberland brand is the core belief that a greener future is a better future. This comes to life through a decades-long commitment to make products responsibly, protect the outdoors, and strengthen communities around the world.

Timberland is a VF Corporation brand. VF is one of the worlds leading apparel, footwear, and accessories companies with socially and environmentally responsible operations, and a commitment to deliver innovative products and create long-term value for its employees, customers, and shareholders.

To learn more about Timberland and share in our mission to step outside, work together and make it better, visit one of our stores, www.timberland.com, or follow us @timberland.

Lets talk about the role!

As the Creative Director, you will set the creative vision for the Timberland brand and build a global creative studio that caters to the needs of an always-on digital marketing model. As a brand, we want to inspire our consumers and our communities with innovative content for digital, phygital, and metaverse touchpoints. Your mission is to lead and create a top-class creative team and to build out a vast network of external creative partners and agencies. You will be working with key marketing functions such as brand management, digital, and phygital retail marketing teams as well as regional and cross functional business teams.

You have experience in building and transforming brands, multimedia design, and creative direction. You understand how to translate authentic brands in the fields of sportswear, outdoor, and streetwear towards a Gen Z audience.

You'll be a trusted member of our team reporting to the Sr. Director Brand Communications and Creative. You will manage a team of writers, graphic designers, art directors, and store environment associates.

Your Key Responsibilities will be to:

* Partner with Sr. Director Brand Communications and Creative and provide direction and strategy during design development and execution of accepted new concepts. And provide design support to the business.
* Be the global guide to bring the new creative vision to live across all touchpoints, in particular digital, phygital, and metaverse. Be the owner of the Brand book and lead a consistent creative approach across the globe. Define a strategic vision against a glocal visual identity and set the standards for creative content (all media, from photography, video, animation, etc.). Set the standards, own and create the future identity of the Timberland brand, globally.
* Build an all-around and digital savvy creative team with the mission to equip Timberland to inspire the next generation.
* Help us build an e-commerce digital content studio for the future and create internal tools for the digital age such as digital showroom, catalog, etc. Reinvent how we creatively go to market in the digital world.

Lead, drive and execute against an always-on digital marketing model and create inspirational content and experiences against digital seasonal briefs. Art direct from brief, to concept, to shoot, to retouch and create new standards to elevate art direction, photography, videography, and digital animation across the globe.

Our Guiding Principles:

Live with Integrity Be authentic and do the right thing, always | Act Courageously Think and act boldly | Be Curious Explore the world, learn and evolve | Act with Empathy Seek to understand and respect others | Persevere Persist and work together as One VF.

You will serve as a purpose-led, performance-driven leader to build productive relationships and collaboration with a strong focus on motivating and developing talent while leading by example. You will also

* Inspire others to step outside and make it better
* Make the difference by using purposeful actions first and encourage others to join you
* Believe in collaboration and work to create positive transformations
* Initiate and propose bold ideas for innovation, development, and progress.

How Youll Make A Difference

You are adaptable with innovation and innovative thinking while continuously learning and driving for results. With your management skills in business acumen, customer focus, driving execution, operational decision making, and selecting talent, you will build strategic work relations with trust, communication, and commitment while leveraging cultural diversity. In building and maintaining a successful team, you coach and develop others with empowerment and by facilitating change.

In addition to being a self-starter, highly organized, and able to work well with individuals at all levels, as the ideal candidate, you will have:

10+ years of experience in retail design in a corporate environment or in a design consultancy firm.

* 10+ years of experience as a designer and/or creative design in the Brand Design Field.
* Excellent portfolio showcasing creative direction, brand building, storytelling, conceptual and executive skills in integrated campaigns.
* Experience and passion to create against digital consumer needs and touchpoints.
* Excited to work in a dynamic, fast-paced creative culture, with the flexibility to change gears for different projects.
* Solid presentation and influencing skills and demonstrated ability to build teams and drive internal and external creatives and integrate their talent with the needs of the brand and the business.

Whats in It for You?

Along with a competitive salary, bonus, and benefits program, we offer a flexible, casual work setting, up to eight weeks of paid parental leave, 40 hours of paid community service, and generous employee discounts on all our amazing VF brands. And its not just our products which set us apart from others, its our people! We believe they deserve to be nurtured and looked after. Thats why, on top of comprehensive benefits, we offer much more:

* Career ownership, enabling you to build your knowledge and experience across different brands and even different countries.
* A supportive feedback-based culture where respect and integrity guide us in what we do.
* Tailored training. From a thorough induction to ongoing online and face-to-face training, we are committed to helping you grow, both professionally and personally.
* An inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and nationalities love working together.

If you like what youve read and want to join our team, wed love to hear from you!

TO LEARN MORE:
Visit vfc.com, timberland.com or follow us on LinkedIn